At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
Around 810/1408 al-Maqrizi moved to Damascus and spent about ten years there. He taught at the Iqbaliyya and administered the endowments of the Qalanisiyya and the great Nuri hospital — a post legally reserved for the Shafi'i judge of Damascus. That judgeship itself was offered to him by al-Nasir ibn Barquq, but he refused it. In Syria he seems to have resolved to give up an unsatisfying public career and devote himself wholly to historical scholarship 1 2.
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Taqi al-Maqrizi
- Occurred at
- Damascus
- During the reign of
- al-Musta'in (Cairo)
People and things also explored
the Cave of Qasyun (Jibril's Cave)· Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan· Qasr Hiraql / Qasr Shams al-Muluk· The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus· Gold-leaf glass mosaic tesserae (Umayyad)· The Fitna of the Hafiz Abd al-Ghani in Damascus in 595· Abu Dawud at Kufa, 221/836, and Damascus, 222/837· al-Afdal besieges Damascus and turns back
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 6 p. 213
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 255
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Maqrizi moves to Damascus, c. 810/1408”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/al-maqrizi-damascus-810/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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